c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future." — Benjamin Disraeli
"It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic." — Lily Aldridge
"There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body." — Douglas William Jerrold
"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government." — Thomas Carlyle
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." — George MacDonald
"We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off." — Jock Sturges
"I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist." — Steven Hatfill
"People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood." — Megan Fox
"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change." — Robert Anthony
"There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging." — Ray Dalio
"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R &amp D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it." — Steve Jobs
"In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now." — Merle Haggard
"A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home." — Leighton Meester
"I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe." — Sharon Stone
"Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble." — Michael J. Fox
"I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase." — Jennifer Aniston
"To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion." — Bodhidharma
"Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace." — Charles Spurgeon
"I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do." — Tim McGraw
"Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast." — Mario Batali
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." — Thomas A. Edison
"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business." — Richard M. Nixon
"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see." — Martin Luther
"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely." — Kim Basinger
"In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty." — Simon Mainwaring
"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people." — Thomas J. Watson
"I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people." — Jesse Ventura
"In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind." — Kenichi Fukui
"I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all." — Eva Green
"Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55." — Kenneth H. Cooper
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples." — Amos Bronson Alcott
"I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well." — Yannick Noah
"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it." — Chaim Potok
"It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are." — Emma Watson
"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles." — Placido Domingo
"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people." — Helmut Kohl
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." — Benjamin Disraeli
"I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing." — Sade Adu
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing." — Helen Keller
"All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it." — Thomas a Kempis
"We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it." — Lauryn Hill
"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams." — Susan Sontag
"I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me." — Kate Clinton
"We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed." — Vicente Fox
"I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist." — Peter Jennings
"I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table." — Jennifer Tilly
"I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating." — Jerry O'Connell
"I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies." — Zoe Kazan
"It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft." — James Houston
"Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience." — Tommy Mottola
"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." — David Letterman
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark." — Walter Lippmann
"I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that so this was just a step for me in that direction." — Diana Ross
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." — Ambrose Bierce
"I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before." — Ezra Koenig
"Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to." — David Cronenberg
"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof." — Neil Gaiman
"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States." — Andrew Jackson
"I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema." — Joe Wright
"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment." — David Herbert Lawrence
"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age." — Joel Coen
"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat." — Jacques Yves Cousteau
"It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!" — John Davidson
"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." — Thomas Fuller
"You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that." — Peter Shilton
"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime." — Tracey Gold
"People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities." — Linda Ellerbee
"For love is immortality." — Emily Dickinson
"The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities." — Samuel Johnson
"The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it." — Jonathan Sacks
"The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy." — Sri Mulyani Indrawati
"You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle." — James Cagney
"I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me." — Elijah Wood
"The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend." — Charles Lamb
"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business." — Maya Lin
"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players." — Kofi Annan
"I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples." — Frank B. Kellogg
"Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice." — Clay Aiken
"Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes." — Melanie Laurent
"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal." — Samuel Butler
"Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure." — Samuel Butler
"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him." — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk." — Billy Idol
"When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?" — Charlie Kaufman
"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty." — John Lennon
"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times." — Richard Rogers
"Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about." — Iain Duncan Smith
"It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world." — Lynn Samuels
"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." — Martin Luther
"If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill." — Frank Langella
"The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house." — Annie Leibovitz
"Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves." — James Buchan
"I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way." — Harvey Weinstein
"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey." — Lord Byron
"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer." — Dave Barry
"Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief." — Jennifer Granholm
"If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas." — Gus Van Sant
"I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't." — LaToya Jackson
"In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga." — Vivienne Westwood
"I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true." — Arsenio Hall
"Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive." — E. O. Wilson
"The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good." — Dalai Lama
"I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully." — Jerry Garcia
"I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love." — James Herriot
"I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection." — John Galliano
"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended." — George Bernard Shaw
"I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line." — Daniel Radcliffe
"When the sun comes up, I have morals again." — Elayne Boosler
"The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to." — Harlan Coben
"The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river." — Kerry Washington
"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay." — Mary Douglas
"Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him." — Lea Seydoux
"College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil." — Ruby Wax
"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar." — Robert Brault
"I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there." — Rachel Stevens
"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts." — William Hazlitt
"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man." — Benjamin Franklin
"The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime." — Karl Rove
"It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit." — Lucy Powell
"I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy." — Jonathan Kozol
"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole." — William S. Burroughs
"I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act." — Yitzhak Rabin
"Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person." — Amanda Peet
"My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all." — Gloria Estefan
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing." — Guy Pearce
"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution." — John F. Kennedy
"The greatest pleasure of life is love." — Euripides
"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom." — Friedrich Schiller
"Every day I'm thinking about change." — Miuccia Prada
"I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations." — Chad Hugo
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." — Henry Adams
"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring." — Prince William
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas A. Edison
"I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business." — Kristen Stewart
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others." — Ambrose Bierce
"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living." — Lawrence Durrell
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default." — J. K. Rowling
"I became famous almost before I had a craft." — Farrah Fawcett
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." — Thomas A. Edison
"A smile costs about $240." — Roma Downey
"I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher." — Peter Diamandis
"Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am." — Gil Scott-Heron
"We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that." — Barbara Jordan
"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold." — Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it." — Richard Whately
"I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak." — Michael Symon
"Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger." — Billy Dee Williams
"I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it." — Ian MacKaye
"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict." — Kenneth L. Pike
"Abused patience turns to fury." — Thomas Fuller
"After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside." — John James Audubon
"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." — George Carlin
"I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up." — Teri Hatcher
"I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody." — Mojo Nixon
"The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." — Frank Norris
"I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things." — Miranda Otto
"One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless." — Frank Lautenberg
"There is no original truth, only original error." — Gaston Bachelard
"And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people." — Mitt Romney
"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible." — George Santayana
"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you." — Saint Isaac of Nineveh
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one." — William Shenstone
"If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck." — Jeff Foxworthy
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are." — J. D. Salinger
"Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers." — Ayelet Waldman
"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons." — James A. Baldwin
"Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth." — Andrei A. Gromyko
"I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real." — Sean Parker
"I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial." — Ani DiFranco
"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve." — Andrea Jung
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." — Abraham Lincoln
"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them." — Jane Fonda
"Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares." — William Law
"I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either." — Kristen Stewart
"Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society." — Alfred Austin
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age." — James Joyce
"It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit." — Tom Sizemore
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles." — Samuel Johnson
"I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs." — Emilio Estevez
"I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it." — Roland Gift
"The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day." — Jam Master Jay
"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." — Henry David Thoreau
"While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State." — Vladimir Lenin
"People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes." — Terry Bradshaw
"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear." — Ovid
"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people." — William Howard Taft
"Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles." — Colin Quinn
"The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical." — Roman Coppola
"Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." — Nicholas Stern
"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America." — Molly Ivins
"Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11." — Al-Waleed bin Talal
"I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year." — Camille Claudel
"I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem." — Rebecca Romijn
"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique." — James MacGregor Burns
"I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire." — Roy Orbison
"Fear follows crime and is its punishment." — Voltaire
"I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere." — George Burns
"You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R." — Dennis Miller
"Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours." — Robert Toombs
"'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'" — Mike Moreno
"I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there." — Ernie Harwell
"I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent." — Susan Rice
"I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers." — Georg Cantor
"If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher." — Dave Chappelle
"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be." — Adlai E. Stevenson
"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." — Bryant H. McGill
"Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us." — Pat Robertson
"I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that." — Taraji P. Henson
"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education." — Jean de la Bruyere
"I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?" — Shailene Woodley
"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America." — Eliot Engel
"I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib." — Eric Bogosian
"I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile." — David Allan Coe
"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time." — Greer Garson
"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science." — James Madison
"Does age matter? Time doesn't matter." — Sandra Bullock
"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear." — George S. Patton
"I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings." — Ryan Reynolds
"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables." — Michel de Montaigne
"Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics." — David Amram
"Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt." — Sigourney Weaver
"If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety." — Josh Billings
"'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for." — Greg Kinnear
"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe." — John Buchanan Robinson
"Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are." — Miguel Angel Ruiz
"For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world." — Conrad Black
"Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." — Victor Hugo
"I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading." — Amy Poehler
"I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years." — Donna Leon
"My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever." — Chris Isaak
"So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that." — Theresa May
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains." — Alfred North Whitehead
"It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!" — Garth Brooks
"I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from." — Diane Keaton
"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it." — Ernest Hemingway
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." — Aeschylus
"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else." — Lascelles Abercrombie
"Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic." — Benjamin Bratt
"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation." — Elizabeth Drew
"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars." — Martin Luther
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that." — James Dickey
"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business." — Warren Buffett
"I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry." — Robert Morgan
"I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge." — Jeffery Deaver
"I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film." — Toby Jones
"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up." — Albert Schweitzer
"It's cool now to play golf." — Tiger Woods
"After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it." — Nicholas Mosley
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I like to travel by myself." — Carly Rae Jepsen
"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos." — Mick Jagger
"Failure is success if we learn from it." — Malcolm Forbes
"All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?" — Ozzy Osbourne
"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage." — Christopher Lasch
"Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures." — Bryant H. McGill
"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation." — Vita Sackville-West
"Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective." — Donald Rumsfeld
"There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner." — Charles Caleb Colton
"I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make." — Shimon Peres
"Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace." — Mohammed Morsi
"I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor." — Joan Rivers
"No one can really honestly be the very best, no one." — John Wooden
"Atlanta is an incredibly cool city." — Andrew Lincoln
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now." — James A. Baldwin
"Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else." — Mos Def
"Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy." — George Herbert
"The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new." — Catherine Bell
"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks." — Brendan Behan
"I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business." — Randy Travis
"I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect." — Dan Rather
"I think you create your own hipness." — Peabo Bryson
"Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything." — Dave Matthews
"How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood." — Harold Ramis
"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women." — Brigitte Bardot
"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." — Susan B. Anthony
"How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it." — Jim Valvano
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots." — George Santayana
"Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated." — Jennifer Aniston
"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?" — Jessica Savitch
"The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use." — Robert Moog
"I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports." — Rachel Griffiths
"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward." — Otto von Bismarck
"I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis." — Mary Ann Mobley
"If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports." — Tom Welling
"Know how to live the time that is given you." — Dario Fo
"I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that." — Ryan Gosling
"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future." — Sivananda
"It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils." — Meg White
"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty." — Ron Paul
"Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be." — Jesse Ventura
"The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff." — Britney Spears
"My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom." — Peter Guber
"My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water." — Kelly Clarkson
"I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four." — Jim Lehrer
"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived." — Winston Churchill
"As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best." — Alice Walker
"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world." — Elizabeth Moon
"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." — Samuel Johnson
"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear." — Baruch Spinoza
"Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period." — Frances Wright
"The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia." — Seal
"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty." — Sydney Smith
"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money." — Ellen Barkin
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure." — Knute Rockne
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources." — Paul Hawken
"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses." — William Hazlitt
"My dad was a Methodist minister." — George McGovern